Nice BBC interview with Nancy Kanwisher that frames the modularity-model of the brain versus the RAM model of the brain. Of course, the more modules there are, the more selves there are, in a certain sense, and the more pressure there is on us to figure out what it is, exactly, that we’ve been meaning all these years by “self.”
I am a psychiatrist (psychopharmacology and psychotherapy) specializing in the so-called "personality disorders," particularly narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. I was a Fellow and then an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia from 2004- 2011, when I had an intellectual crisis-of-faith in which I stopped believing that neuroimaging could shed significant insight into the mystery of subjective experience. Since then I have focused on my clinical practice (at the Personality Studies Institute) and philosophical concerns.
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Jonah Lehrer is Not a Neuroscientist
One Brain, Many Selves?
Where is pi?
Chasing Their Own Tails: When Central Tendency Junkies Attack, Part 1
There is no such thing as a zebra
Beyonce’s Central Pattern Generator
Online Poll: On the Merits of Screwing Up
The loneliness of the aardvark
Its: not all in your head
Introduction to Readings
Think Like A Shrink #1: Don’t Psychoanalyze Your Family and Friends!
Auguste Comte: A General View of Positivism (1856)
Metaneuroscience: From Self to Neuroself, Part 7
Human Brain Mapping
Renee Descartes: Not a Bad Philosopher. A Bad Physicist.
Double Helix, Double Cross
The Pentagon-Neuroscience Connection Part 2
Eisenhower’s Ghost and Obama’s Brain
The NYT Comes Around
The antidote to ADHD isn’t Ritalin, it’s play: let’s make recess the first class of the day!
Only Connectome
Moment of Neural Zen
Yes Albert, there is spooky action at a distance
Do axons think?
The Known Universe
Impossible People
The Medicalization of Deviance: Can Brain Images Detect Pre-Crime?
More evidence of the concept of the self in non-humans
Bees Detect Information from Electric Fields
What’s the Difference Between Psychology and Psychopharmacology?
What’s the Difference Between Mathematics and The Humanities?
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I am a therapist, pharmacologist, and erstwhile functional neuroimager. My clinical work focuses on integrating medication with talk therapy to treat self-disorders. I want to build an empirical metaphysics with clinical teeth.
January 26, 2012
Psychotherapy